Pater: 54 books

Greek Studies a Series of Essays Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Greek Studies a Series of Essays», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

Marius the Epicurean Volume I Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Marius the Epicurean Volume I», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table...

Gaston de Latour Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Gaston de Latour», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About...

Plato and Platonism Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Plato and Platonism», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...

Miscellaneous Studies Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Miscellaneous Studies», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

Appreciations with an Essay on Style Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Appreciations with an Essay on Style», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

Famed for his singular prose style as much as for his controversial aestheticist principles, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was one of the great essayists in a century of great essayistic writing. His first book, *Studies in the History of the Renaissance—*one of the most original and influential texts...

This posthumous 1895 collection brings together, from many different journals and magazines, Pater’s influential and wide-ranging writings. The contents include “Prosper Mérimée,” “Raphael,” “Pascal,” “Art Notes in Northern Italy,” “Notre-Dame d’Amiens,” “Vézelay,” “Apollo...

I married John Pater in Oct 1971, in communist Romania. We separated after six months and it seemed like any hope for reconciliation was gone. I prayed many years for him hoping that he would come back. He became involved in another relationship so I decided to divorce him after seven years. Although...

In the exquisite prose style that was profound and perceptive, Pater has united philosophy, truth and moral values. He draws the portrait of a young man whose quest for truth takes him from Stoicism to Cyrenaicism to Epicurianism and finally to Christianity. The book imparts the idea that ethical traditions of religion are important as they are the only civilizing influences on society.

Poppedin is a curious furry purple cat on adventure in- and around the house. This time Poppedin is in for a surprise when he wakes up on Christmas morning.

[T]he first true and correctly proportioned presentation of Platonism that has been given to the general reader."-Paul ShoreyThrough his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly modern frame of mind. He converts Plato's search for a primordial and transcendent unity...

These lambent essays, published in 1873, focus on Renaissance masters like Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.  The book's brief conclusory essay was to prove far more influential than what preceded it, as Pater laid out his iconoclastic artistic philosophy and called for what was essentially a hedonistic approach to art. 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  [T]he first true and correctly proportioned presentation of Platonism that has been given to the general reader."-Paul ShoreyThrough his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly...